Not Maintained Anymore!

Please note that RailsBricks is currently not maintained and will likely not be upgraded to use Rails 5+. I leave it here for legacy purpose. If you want to take over, contact me.

Features

replaces the rails new command with rbricks -n

includes useful gems and sets them up for you

offers different UI choices for your web app

creates and configures a Devise authentication scheme

adds the necessary resources for a blog, contact form, and more

builds an admin zone

configures your mailers

inits local and remote git repositories

...and much more to boost your productivity!

Prerequisites

In order to use RailsBricks, you need the following:

A nix-based OS. That can be any flavour of Linux or OS X

Ruby (version 2.0+)

Some knowledge of Rails (!)

What about Windows?

RailsBricks doesn't run out of the box on Windows. You will first need to install the DevKit as well as the tzinfo-data gem.

Ruby support

RailsBricks generates Rails apps with support for the current major Ruby release (currently, 2.0.0) + the current point release and the previous one, for example 2.2.2 & 2.2.3. If you need to use another version of Ruby, you will have to manually edit the Gemfile after the app gets created and update the following line with your chosen version number:

ruby '2.1.5'

Install

Like any other gem, you simply issue gem install railsbricks

Notice: If you still have RailsBricks 1.x installed, remove it manually before installing RailsBricks 3.x